POISON GANG
ARRESTED IN CHICAGO. COLLECTING INSURANCES. (Received November 13, 12.5 a.m.) NEW YORK, November 12. With the arrest at Chicago of two women charged with murder, _the police believe they have unearthed a strange agency which made it its business to poison people for the purpose of collecting their life insurance. The bodies of two men, one woman and three children have been ordered to he exhumed for the purpose of a search for poison in their stomachs. The (police Relieve there are six more victims. The arrested leaders would approach a willing husband or wife whose mate was insured, and suggest poisoning for the purpose of collecting the indemnity. Wherever children were in the way they also were poisoned.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11366, 13 November 1922, Page 6
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121POISON GANG New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11366, 13 November 1922, Page 6
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